What items unique to you, makes the place you live, your "home"?
Besides the obvious of course, your family and/or pets, what unique personal belonging(s), art, etc., must you have in your house or apartment, in order for it to really feel like your home?
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My studio- the paint and brushes and the fireplace. I could live in that one room.
The photos that I have taken of Lake Superior. My little wooden loon. My sons’ academic and music awards.
My family & Friend’s photos of course. Definitely my record collection and turntable as well. I have velvet painting of a cross-eyed clown, and a one-of-a-kind framed fuzzy-bunny, both of which I couldn’t imagine my home without.
There is likely a few other little collectible items that should be there, but all the rest of it is just stuff I could do with or without and/or replace.
Almost forgot, I’m a total map geek/junkie and have both framed maps on my wall and functional maps that I could not be without. I <3 maps!
Native American pottery, a Taoist wood carving of a religious man, Indonesian and Chinese masks, numerous musical instruments, numerous paintings by artists both inside and outside the family, my old teacher’s desk, bookshelves I built myself, the Persian carpets, the furniture I bought at auction when we were poor…
I could go on and on. There are so many things. Most people, when they enter the house, comment on the feeling they get. Things seem right in our house. It makes people comfortable.
It’s my familiarity with the place that makes it home.
The ‘things’ that make me feel at home are my photographs, but I usually take those to work to make my cubicle feel more ‘homey’.
My trinkets. I’ve collected lots of little trinkets over the years and they can make any place—even a hotel room—feel like home.
Huge walk in freezer with soundproof walls
The quilts that my grandmother made me. I brought them with me when I went to college because it made me feel closer to home.
Gawd, the books. Thousands of them, collected over a lifetime and spanning a Dewey Decimal range of subject matter. There must be two dozen dictionaries, including dictionaries of philosophy, behavioral psychology, and Buddhism, an OED, a massive two-volume dictionary of Sanskrit, and a huge dictionary of Canadian English.
There are a few special pictures on the walls, including one original oil I purchased in a Carmel gallery from a then-unknown artist who later made good (value multipled about 20x). I have a very small but respectable collection of antique Limoges porcelain. Otherwise it is old furniture and other old stuff—not antique, just old, maybe unique by now just because all of their contemporaries have long since made it to the recycle yard.
@jonsblond, I have a wooden loon too!
@forestGeek I’m a map geek too. I have one up of Lake Superior and one of the U.S., along with a huge collection in my bedroom.
@Jeruba I even have a clock that makes a loon call every hour. Love those little guys.
My TV, consoles, media streaming kit and surround sound system. It simply wouldn’t be home without them!
@jonsblond, I have a loon-call whistle and a recording of Claire de Lune with guess-what bird calls overlaid, and I buy a loon calendar every year. Are we loony or what? (Where’d you get the clock?)
@jonsblond – Yay, wish I could give 100 lurve for my fellow map geek!!!!
My favorite is my 2’ x 3.5’ framed map of Alaska. I buy maps everywhere I go. For Christmas I got a $60.00 gift certificate to my local map store…the person who gave that to me, clearly knows me very well!
@Jeruba That’s for sure! Though my husband has been calling me that for years. ;)
@forestGeek It’s the thought that counts. :)
Artwork made by myself and friends in college.
Blankets and a pillow made by my mom.
Crystals that i mined or collected over the years.
Pictures of family, friends and scenic places.
Things that i have written over the years may count, but I don’t use those as decorations.
Books and furniture and electronics all hold a certain feeling, but they are more replaceable than the other items.
My big bad music collection, and all the rubbish I’ve been collecting for years now, and yes, my books and my movies
@buster Did you used to go to Winthrop? I think I’ve seen those monkey stencils on street signs and stop-light boxes around town.
or something very similar
I answered the wrong damn question! I meant to answer that under ”“Besides food, what things have you made at home?” I guess it works here too.
@Grisson Never been there.
Artwork my son has been creating over the past decade.
A replica of a 1 hand clock I found at the Salvation Army in Providence, RI which was hand-built by someone in Dec. 1970. The clock itself was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1777.
The cheery, winter-red carpet that welcomes friends and family home after a long day in the world. It fills up almost the entire living room!
Lastly, my collection of cobalt blue glass bottles that decorates the window sills in my library room.
I don’t know yet!
Just bought our house, so it’s still ‘in the making’ :)
@Milladyret – Congrats! I’m sure it wont take long for it to become homey!
My books and just a hodge-podge of interesting things. Wherever I live always ends up looking like a museum because I seem to attract interesting stuff.
Thousands and thousands of photos. If my house was burning down, I’d be hauling them and my cameras out of the fire.
We’ve taken artwork that our children have made and framed them – some professionally, some just with frames we picked out, ourselves. We’ve incorporated them in each room.
One piece always garners the most attention and questions – my daughter’s Poopy Brown Vase picture. I love it, she hates it. She wan’t the vase to be blue, but a boy stole the color she was going to use and wound up with “poopy” brown, instead. Had she used blue, it wouldn’t have been the same.
My son’s inchworm, probably the sweetest piece. I love it – it’s just something that makes you smile when you see it.
My books; my collections: the letter “N”, chairs (mini and full sized), antique baby cups, and birds; my art supplies. My suede clogs. Gotta’ have those.
I think Sloane2024 has enough items to fill Aaron Spelling’s mansion. :)
a couple of clothes and my laptop. I move around a lot actually, so “home” is wherever I can take my shoes off.
I need my pictures. My insane amount of pictures of my friends from boarding school, my mom and sister from the vacations we used to take together, and my best friend who is far away now. They are reminders of my life before now.
My Altec Lansing speakers is an extra appendage, as is my pink covered MacBook. :)
My purse calendar, the poem my SO wrote me, and a giant case of mountain dews tend to follow me everywhere as well.
Oh, and schoolwork. That is another “thing” that seems to define me… no matter where I am.
Lol, sorry. I left the window open. :P
@Sloane2024 At least we now know that you weren’t abducted. :D
@forestGeek
Thank you!
Had our housewarmingparty last night, and it’s feeling homier already ;)
I have a plastic garden squirrel that I put at the front door of each place I live.
Photographs and music collection
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